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Ellen Barkin is an acclaimed American actress known for her breakthrough role in the 1982 film Diner. Over the years, she has starred in numerous critically acclaimed films and TV shows, earning prestigious awards like the Golden Globe and Tony.
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About the Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkinis an American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Big Easy (1986), Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love (both 1989).
In 1991, for her leading role in the film Switch, Barkin received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Her subsequent film credits include: Man Trouble, Into the West (both 1992), This Boy’s Life (1993), Bad Company, Wild Bill (both 1995), The Fan (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000), Palindromes (2004), Trust the Man (2005), Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), Brooklyn’s Finest (2009), and The Cobbler (2014).
In 1998, Barkin received a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the television film Before Women Had Wings. In 2011, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway theatre debut in The Normal Heart. From 2016 until 2019, she played the leading role of Janine “Smurf” Cody on the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom. From 2012 until 2013, she played the leading role of Jane Forrest on the NBC sitcom The New Normal.
Her producing credits include the films Letters to Juliet, Shit Year (both 2010), and Another Happy Day (2011).
Frequently Asked Questions
Ellen Barkin was born on April 16, 1954.
Ellen Barkin’s breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner.
Ellen Barkin has starred in films such as Tender Mercies, Eddie and the Cruisers, The Big Easy, Sea of Love, and Ocean’s Thirteen.
Ellen Barkin has won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film Before Women Had Wings and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in The Normal Heart.
From 2016 to 2019, Ellen Barkin played the leading role of Janine ,Smurf, Cody on the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, and from 2012 to 2013, she played the leading role of Jane Forrest on the NBC sitcom The New Normal.
Ellen Barkin has produced the films Letters to Juliet, Shit Year, and Another Happy Day.
Ellen Barkin has had a diverse and acclaimed career, transitioning from her breakthrough role in Diner to starring in a wide range of critically acclaimed films and TV shows, while also earning prestigious awards like the Golden Globe and Tony.
7 Quotes by Ellen Barkin
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You’ve got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
Ellen BarkinAmerican actress
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio’s mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
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- 5.
My husband thinks he’s compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
Ellen BarkinAmerican actress
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I guess if you’re lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
Ellen BarkinAmerican actress
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When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she’s looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
Ellen BarkinAmerican actress